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Researchers Find Greek Austerity Caused More than 500 Suicides

Research conducted by the University of Portsmouth found a correlation between austerity measures and suicides in Greece. Male suicides caused by spending cuts have risen since the economic recession has started. According to the research which aspires to underline the...

Greek Suicides Jump 43% During Crisis

From 2007-11 - just before and during Greece's crushing economic crisis, suicides soared 43 percent in a country which had one of the lowest rates in Europe prior to that, the statistical agency ELSTAT reported. There have been some public...

Two Suicides On Crete

A 45-year-old male employee who had been working in the municipality of Hersonissos was found hanged at the archaeological site of Malia. The police and an ambulance responded and the body was taken to the coroner for an autopsy authorities...

Greek Crisis Sees Increase in Deaths Due to Medical Errors

The onset of the economic crisis in Greece has resulted in an increase in deaths due to medical errors, according to a new analysis by researchers at City, University of London, Surrey University and Stanford University that was published...

Suicide Rate in Greece Decreases

According to the Suicide Network Records of NGO Klimaka's Prevention Center, Greece has recorded a decrease in its suicide rate in the first quarter of 2014. On the occasion of World Suicide Prevention Day on September 10, new information regarding...

More Greeks Killing Themselves: Europe’s Fastest Increase

Four years of recession and more than 18 months of pay cuts, tax hikes, slashed pensions and coming layoffs by the thousands are taking their toll in a deadly way as the rate of increase in suicides[..]